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*Apologies for cross-posting* Dear all, the Institute for German Studies (IGS) at the University of Birmingham would like to invite you to its upcoming event The Significance of the World War One Centenary in Transnational Perspective Speakers: Professor Gerhard Hirschfeld (University of Stuttgart) Dennis Grinat (Ruhr Museum, Essen - PhD candidate, University of Stuttgart) Chair: Dr Nicholas Martin (IGS Birmingham) Gerhard Hirschfeld is Germany's leading historian of the First World War, and an authority on both world wars (including the comparative history of occupation and collaboration in WW2). He is the co-author of Deutschland im Ersten Weltkrieg (2013) and co-editor of Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg (2003), which has become a standard reference work. Dennis Grinat, whose PhD is being supervised by Gerhard Hirschfeld, has experience of working on two major transnational projects connected with the history of the First World War. WHEN? Thursday, 24 November 2016, 5–7 p.m. WHERE? Muirhead Tower, Room 714-15, University of Birmingham This is an IGS seminar organized as part of the IGS research project ‘(Not) Made in Germany? Imagining Germany from the Outside’<http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/government-society/centres/igs/research/projects/from-the-outside.aspx>, supported by the DAAD. ALL WELCOME! Best wishes, Maren IGS Birmingham website<http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/government-society/centres/igs/index.aspx> Find us on Facebook!<https://www.facebook.com/igsbirmingham/> ________________________________ Maren Rohe Doctoral Researcher & Project Assistant Institute for German Studies Department of Political Science and International Studies Muirhead Tower University of Birmingham Edgbaston B15 2TT http://bit.ly/1N3SvNH